franksinatra
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Not just football, but pretty much any event in life certain publications are rarely accurate.
Media Discussion - 2023/24
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Not just football, but pretty much any event in life certain publications are rarely accurate.
Console ourselves that in 20 years the history clubs will be irrelevant in the eyes of today's youth.
Today's hacks will have long gone and the new media will be pandering for their clicks from whoever are the flavour of the day.
Today's hacks will have long gone and the new media will be pandering for their clicks from whoever are the flavour of the day.
jimmygrimblesboots
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Not paid the TV fee for donkeys years , had a couple of visits asking to enter my house amd told them to f*ck off , they threatened with getting a court order and returning with the police to gain entry but this will never happen , they just move on to the next mug shitting themselves because they have been threatened with court action and a £1000 fine.
I know mate, you're right.
In an era gone by we could defend our club.
These days it just feels like you just have to take the kicking.
But I will heed your advice.
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It hasn’t changed a bit in 15 years - in fact and it’s getting far worse.
Newspapers in a physical form won’t exist in 20 years. They will exist online but hacks will be replaced by AI running pieces based on algorithms that pander to the red clubs more than ever.
If you have a newspaper like say the Mail , which online runs say 40 times more articles on red clubs than the treble winners then that won’t ever change.
The broadcasters at Sky and TNT are doing exactly the same and getting worse every year.
We haven’t broken the cycle despite having the greatest manager in the history of the game , clearing up all the trophies so thinking it will ever change is wrong
KentBlue
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Oliver Holt in the Mail sticking it into Haaland today. Basically saying how much longer do we have to put up with the tantrums of pampered multi-millionaires.
Slimy **** nailed his colours to the mast decades and decades ago, and yet still he has that platform to continue his anti-City agenda.
Slimy **** nailed his colours to the mast decades and decades ago, and yet still he has that platform to continue his anti-City agenda.
We have been the number 1 team for the last 12 years.
The history clubs stole a march on us by being the relevant clubs at the time when the television took over the game ,that will mean little to the present day viewers around the world.
Clever organisations look in advance to gauge their future audience.
City are that future audience, IF, we maintain our current success .
Kids all around the world in this day and age only want to be attached to successful personalities and team's.
We are lucky,our owners spotted that potential ,when buying us,and we now have a worldwide fan base and massive potential growth.
Our rivals across the City,have failed to do that.
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That all might sound well and good - but you answered your own question.
Utd haven’t won fuck all for 10 years and lurch from embarrassment to embarrassment - yet the English media don’t care.
BBC Skysports TNT The Sun The Mail The Times The Mirror etc etc all riddled with reds writing and broadcasting for the red teams. It will never change.
We’ve just won a treble and still don’t get a fair word or broadcast.
It will never change
You honestly believe the Daily United (Mail) can‘t keep their on-going anti-City campaign up. You think they would call it a day at some point. But no, the Daily Mail just keeps on going after City, regrdless of the reason/s.
On the Daily Mail’s ‘front page’. Look at the hysterical and over the top headline by Holt. According to Holt, it was nothing more than a ‘contentious’ decision.
On the Daily Mail’s ‘front page’. Look at the hysterical and over the top headline by Holt. According to Holt, it was nothing more than a ‘contentious’ decision.
Stockton Heath Blue
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Is the correct answer. In my industry (property finance) I have a 70% success rate of calling the winners at awards dinners.
Tantrums of pampered multi-millionaires is really such a slimy, weaselly dickhead way to describe what happened. I'd bet a million pounds Oliver Holt has never played football, even casually for fun. Your adrenalin is high and even among mates playing for fun, tempers flare very often.
In a high stakes game with so much on the line and a very very obvious mistake by the ref to cheat City out of a chance to win the game is a legitimate reason to not only be upset but question the ref. Not a single team anywhere in the world, at any level, would react any differently to a situation like that where the ref ended the game prematurely while a teammate is through one v one to win the game.
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I know a business owner who spends several thousand a year literally buying these sham awards in her particular industry (tourism)
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Have the BBC gone too far? Ridiculous OTT response from them, posting the same question 19 times, to enable them to get the same frothing foaming negative reaction.
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Yes I agree, but none of them are prepared to be the first ones to break the mould and adopt a whole different stance and narrative with their reporting on united.
Newman Noggs
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And that will be their eventual undoing.
RodneyRodney
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He need to learn to spell ; there's no "H-A-A-L-A-N-D" in "Rashford"
Well we seen today that the scum and Ten bob has banned a few of the media from the swamp for a few negative articles! Fuk me we would have no one at our press conferences if we started banning the media for negative articles!
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What's happening in the media is there is an increasing number of people who actually know nothing about football and don't even care about what's better for football. That's because they see football as a business and not a sport, they don't care who wins the league every year, they only care about who pays them. The rules follow this too because the historic rich and powerful clubs are most able to influence the rules, often because as with United they have directors literally sitting on the panels that make the rules. The funny thing is even United fans hate their own directors and ownership so these people do not stand for what's best in football.
If the media wanted to do its job then why don't they challenge the effectiveness of FFP and the obvious corruption? They won't do it because it doesn't pay to challenge the people that are best placed to pay their wages. They instead churn relentless crap about city and FFP but they never challenge FFP itself or why it's actually terrible for football.
More clubs are going bust and so clearly FFP doesn't work and yet it still exists, they don't even challenge how FFP is clearly the wrong tool. They should be challenging why the Premier League just sold £7bn of rights to Sky and the lower struggling clubs will see less than 1% of it. Those clubs only see that money if they get into the Premier League and so why wouldn't they take even more risks to get there? FFP just keeps them in their box.
Either way there is a massive hypocrisy, city are the focus of talk on fair play but why does the media never question how Barcelona can even continue when they can't pay their players and hold £1bn+ of debt? Why is Barcelona's debt not a problem yet citys fully legal accounting practices are a problem?
There is corruption in football at a massive scale and it's just a fact that the media is deeply embedded within it. I'd say that the footballing aspect of the media aren't, the pundits for example are often quite fair to us and that's because they're footballing people. However the people that hold the money and those that can therefore influence narratives certainly are deeply involved.
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I actually have got over all the shit a long time ago, we have a lot to thank these wankers for.
Pep came for 3 years and here we are going into 2024 and he's still going strong, in fact I watched his match of the day interview and he just gets better - just laughed and said it is what it is.
How can the media keep making up polls and awards that are set out to make Pep look nothing special, when anyone who knows anything about anything knows he's better than special.
Rags now gone 10 years since winning the league and dipper's 1 in 32 years, fuck me the media deserves awards for persistence.
Just think if they had just gave him the credit he deserves and blew smoke up his arse he might have gone in 3 years.
Nope I think Pep fucking loves challenge of making the media look stupid, it stops him getting bored.
Few years back it was he's fuck all until he wins the chump's league, now that's done I think Peps is responding to the largest squad challenge ( I could do without this one myself) and he will get us over the line again.
The media knows until our world wide fan base is able to sustain them in clicks then the next option is to slag us off which brings in revenue from dippers and rags.
Just look at BBC have your say and nothing but rags and dippers ranting on about charges and cheats, neutral fans compliment us are soon bullied out of it, city fans try to argue but it's not worth it.
Anyway big thanks to the media for being responsible for the greatest manager staying so long.
P.S. don't forget to vote for the scruffy fucker in his club shop freebies if it's "The best manager" in the last 10 years.
Pep came for 3 years and here we are going into 2024 and he's still going strong, in fact I watched his match of the day interview and he just gets better - just laughed and said it is what it is.
How can the media keep making up polls and awards that are set out to make Pep look nothing special, when anyone who knows anything about anything knows he's better than special.
Rags now gone 10 years since winning the league and dipper's 1 in 32 years, fuck me the media deserves awards for persistence.
Just think if they had just gave him the credit he deserves and blew smoke up his arse he might have gone in 3 years.
Nope I think Pep fucking loves challenge of making the media look stupid, it stops him getting bored.
Few years back it was he's fuck all until he wins the chump's league, now that's done I think Peps is responding to the largest squad challenge ( I could do without this one myself) and he will get us over the line again.
The media knows until our world wide fan base is able to sustain them in clicks then the next option is to slag us off which brings in revenue from dippers and rags.
Just look at BBC have your say and nothing but rags and dippers ranting on about charges and cheats, neutral fans compliment us are soon bullied out of it, city fans try to argue but it's not worth it.
Anyway big thanks to the media for being responsible for the greatest manager staying so long.
P.S. don't forget to vote for the scruffy fucker in his club shop freebies if it's "The best manager" in the last 10 years.
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